Lightbulb Jokes

Question: How many economists does it take to change a light bulb?Answer 1: Seven. One to screw it in and six to hold everything else constant.Answer 2: Two. One to assume the existence of a ladder and one to change the bulb.Answer 3: Hell, you need a whole department of them just to prepare the research grant.Answer 4: One to prepare the proposal, an econometrician to run the model, one PhD student to write the dissertation, two more to prepare the journal article, four to review it, and at least as many to refine the model and replicate the results.

Question: How many Chicago School economists does it take to change a light bulb?Answer 1: None. If the light bulb needed changing the market would have already done it.Answer 2: None. If the government would just leave it alone it would change itself.

Question: How many neo-classical economists does it take to change a light bulb?Answer: It depends on the wage rate.

Question: How many Keynesian economists does it take to change a light bulb?Answer: All. Because then you will generate employment, increase consumption, increase AD …

Question: How many Marxists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Answer: None – the bulb contains within it the seeds of its own revolution.

Question: How many environmental economists does it take to change a light bulb?Answer: Eight – one to turn the light bulb and seven to do the environmental impact study.